Anyone know about SATA drives?

[db]

i remember when SATA first came on the scene, windows XP setup treated it just like SCSI - i.e. you had to hit F6 during setup to load the drivers from floppy; the drives wouldn't be recognised natively a la IDE..

is this still the case? i'm about to buy a dirty big hard drive for my living room PC, which doesn't have a floppy drive, so i won't be able to load 3rd party drivers if that's the case.. i know you can "slipstream" drivers into an XP installation CD, but i can't be arsed with that.. does anyone know if the latest XP volume licence installation CD supports SATA and SATA-II hard drives natively?

ta..

 

[jimbob23]

I can honestly say I haven't got a clue what you're on about.

By the way, does anyone know how to load a crab spangler onto a Mac running OS9? I'd use the wobbly flobbly drive but it doesn't exist.

Nutter.

 

[db]

I can honestly say I haven't got a clue what you're on about.

By the way, does anyone know how to load a crab spangler onto a Mac running OS9? I'd use the wobbly flobbly drive but it doesn't exist.

Nutter.

gutted - i thought you were a mighty computer geek? i don't know why i thought that lol.. i think someone mentioned your name in another IT related post lol..

oh, and you'll never get a crab spangler working on OS9; are you mad? you need genuine pre-emptive spangling and a crab*nix kernel for that to work, so it's OS X or nowt buddy

 

[jimbob23]

oh, and you'll never get a crab spangler working on OS9; are you mad?

Obviously. What was I thinking?

 

[Monquey]

I'm on about my 4th SATA in 2 years (shit brand and my warranty only covers like for like) so I can tell you that as far as I know, all the F6 crap is still true. I have a floppy drive, but for some unknown reason it won't recognise it during a fresh install, so I had the cocks I bought the heap of crap from 'slipstream' the drivers on to a fresh copy of windows. That was about a year ago, and I doubt they've changed anything since. Madness really, a floppy drive is good for feck all except this. I may be wrong though.

 

[db]

oh crap..

ah well.. my shiny new samsung spinpoint 250gb SATA drive has just turned up, so fingers crossed i'll get it working, eh

 

[Monquey]

250? Pah, that's not enough room for anything.

 

[db]

250? Pah, that's not enough room for anything.

it's a damn sight better than the ATA66 13.6Gb drive i've got in there at the moment lol.. seriously, i've installed windows and the sims 2 on it and it's already full!

 

[UltraSBM]

Don't want to sound like a geek...but any nVidia nForce 4 based motherboard will be automatically detected by Windows XP setup as far as S-ATA drives are concerned.
Cheaper chipsets such as the VIA/ALI etc or other manufacturer's S-ATA controller chipsets eg Maxtor, are not recognised automatically, but nVidia have integrated the S-ATA controller on to the South Bridge chip now and hence Windows XP setup recognises them as fixed disks.

Sorry if that made anyone feel :/ but it's the simplest way I can put it

 

[db]

get in - it's an asus mobo based on (you guessed it) nforce 430

i got the drive days ago, but i've been too lazy to install it.. plus i'm toying with the idea of waiting until vista gets an official release and chucking that on there, seeing as it's not my main PC..